Notification Services for the Server-Based Certificate Validation Protocol

• 作者: Johannes BUCHMANN Vangelis KARATSIOLIS
• 来源期刊: 通讯、网络与系统学国际期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: SCVP CERTIFICATION PATH CERTIFICATION PATH Construction CERTIFICATION PATH VALIDATION X.509 CERTIFICATE
• 年，卷（期）: 2009,（5）
• 页码范围: 378-384
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

The Server-Based Certificate Validation Protocol allows PKI clients to delegate to a server the construction or validation of certification paths. The protocol’s specification focuses on the communication between the server and the client and its security. It does not discuss how the servers can efficiently locate the necessary PKI resources like certificate or certificate revocation lists. In this paper we concentrate on this topic. We present a simple and effective method to facilitate locating and using various PKI resources by the servers, without modifying the protocol. We use the extension mechanism of the protocol for notifying the servers about PKI repositories, certificates, and revocations. We specify the tasks of the servers and certificate issu-ers and define the messages that are exchanged between them. A proof of concept is given by implementing an SCVP server, a client, and the proposed method in Java.